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Which founder of sociology believed societies changed due to class struggle?

Karl Marx

Amount of physical, mental, and social effort used to produce goods and services in an economy

Labor

Demographic structure change is a consequence of

Migration

Movement of people from one geographic area to another for the purposes of resettling

Migration

Type or research when we use both quantitative and qualitative methods

Mixed (triangulation)

A behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions

crime

Violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individual's self-image or interactions with others

define primary deviance

A system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands

polyandry

The regulation and enforcement of norms

social control

Unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige results

social inequality

Microsociology

studies small groups

Macrosociology

studies society as a whole

Seasonal migration is

the movement of people from one place or another on a seasonal basis.

Societies practice social control to maintain

the stability of society(social order)

Law of 3 stages by A. Comte

the theological stage - fictitious ,the metaphysical stage - abstract,the positive stage - scientific

A movement up or down the social ladder, and thus is often called upward or downward mobility

vertical social mobility

Explanation for a phenomenon based on a conjecture about the relationship between the phenomenon and one or more causal factors

A hypothesis

Trial run in which just a few people complete a questionnaire

A pilot study

The property of the sample to reflect the characteristics of the general population is called

A sample

Who introduced the term "sociology" directly into scientific circulation

A.Comte

The founder of positivism in sociology is

Auguste Comte

Who gave law of three stages in sociology?

Auguste Comte

Two main authors on sociological perspectives of labor

By Karl Marx & MaxWeber

A form of social stratification in which status is determined by one's family history and background and cannot be changed

Caste

Who created the looking-glass self theory?

Charles Cooley

Type of questions that give a respondent a fix number of choices

Closed or close-ended question(Standardized)

Living together as a romantically involved, unmarried couple

Cohabiting

The theory which focuses on how socialization reinforces unequal power arrangements

Conflict theory(social inequality)

A research method that refers to the systematic examination of documents of any sort

Content analysis

Research method which can be quite inexpensive comparing with other methods

Content analysis

Unskilled labor

Does not require training

The author of the book "Suicide"

E. Durkheim

Author of the work "The division of labour"

E.Durkheim

Marrying someone of similar race or ethnicity, class, education, religion, region, or nationality

Endogamy

Marrying someone from a different social group

Exogamy

The group in an experiment that experiences the independent variable

Experimental Group The best—and perhaps only—way to study highly stigmatized behaviors such as injecting illegal drug

A research method in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable to test theories of cause and effect

Experiments

Which of the following is typically the earliest agent of socialization?

Family

Group interview also can be called

Focus group

The theory which addresses the question of social organization (structure) and how it is maintained (function)

Functionalism

A statement about relationships that we expect to find if our theory is correct

Hypotheses

C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study how society affects individuals

Imagination

Type of questions that leave respondents with a space in which to write their answers

Open-ended

The process of deciding exactly how to measure a given variable is called

Operationalizing

A research method in which researchers participate in their subjects' daily life, observe daily life, or interview people in depth about their lives

Participant observation

Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist?

Participant observation

A system of marriage that allows men to have multiple wives

Polygamy

Migration by better educational and health opportunities causes

Pull factors

Causes of migration

Push Factors, Pull Factors

Migration by overcrowding, lack of sanitation and resource crunch causes

Push factors

Migration by social, political or religious oppression causes

Push factors

Methods attempt to gather detailed, rich data allowing for an in-depth understanding of individual action in the context of social life

Qualitative methods

Methods try to measure social phenomena and use mathematical models and, often, statistical analysis to explain them

Quantitative methods

A sample is chosen so that every member of the population has the same probability of being included

Random sampling

Author of structural strain theory

Robert Merton

The most extreme system of social stratification, relegates people to the status of property, mainly for the purpose of providing labor for the slave owner

Slavery

Recruitment technique in which research participants are asked to assist researchers in identifying other potential subjects

Snowball sampling

A system of stratification practiced primarily in capitalist societies, ranks groups of people according to their wealth, property, power, and prestige. It is also referred to by sociologists as socioeconomic status

Social Class

Which theory addresses the points of stress and conflict in society and the ways in which they contribute to social change

Social conflict theory

A.Comte considered sociology as

Social physics(positivism?)

Process of learning the roles, statuses, and values necessary for participation in social institutions

Socialization

"Which of these theories is most likely to look at the social world on a micro level?

Symbolic Interactionist Theory

Which theory addresses the subjective meanings of human acts and the processes through which people come to develop and communicate shared meanings

Symbolic interactionism theory

All people who could potentially be studied as part of the research

The General Population

A set of vacancies opened in a certain period at state enterprises

The labor market

The actual population selected for the research

The research sample(the respondents)

Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?

The study of society and social interaction

An interrelated set of assumptions that explains observed patterns

Theory

Formal social control is

Through formal controls, the state or other authorities discourage nonconformity.

Informal social control is

Through informal controls, our friends and intimates reward us for conformity and punish us for nonconformity.

Structural-functional theory

assumes that socialization benefits everyone

The process of socialization begins at the age

from the time a child is born, throughout life until death.

The three major sociological paradigms that offer explanations for the motivation behind deviance and crime

functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory

Internal migration is

human migration within a country

A student has a habit of talking on their cell phone during class. One day, the professor stops the lecture and asks the student to respect others in the class by turning off the phone. In this situation, the professor used __________ to maintain social control

informal negative sanctions

An angry comment is an example of ... sanction

informal, negative

A mobility, which is fairly common, refers to the changing of jobs within a class: a therapist who shifts careers so that he can teach college

lateral mobility (glossary)

The author of the book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

М.Weber

The group in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable

Сontrol group


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